CASIO W213, which is this one. Why am I showing this one? There are many people that
try and fail to modify this into being this. Get the W213 instead. I am going to explain why.
The W213 is the watch that you get when you want a W96H or a W800 with a countdown timer with
auto-repeat and five alarms, which is exactly what this is.
First of all, the watch has 50 meter water resistance and not 100. Some people would complain about that.
I really would not. Who cares? Does it really make a difference
with water resistance between 50 and 100 meters? With CASIO watches, no. My proof of that is to look at
any F-91W and its water resistance. The F-91W watch is a huge overachiever.
We have five alarms,
weekday, month, day and time appearing on the display. There is an animation that appears on top.
This is a useless animation but it looks cool. You have one, two, three, four, five alarms
and that is for hourly signal. You have a countdown timer
with auto-repeat as it shows at the top right, and also the small indicator right there.
There is a stopwatch, a dual time feature, and that is all. The W213 has every single feature of the
W96H and the W800 with the addition of five alarms and a countdown timer with auto-repeat.
You will also notice something, and there is a reason I keep comparing these two watches. Notice that
the the time display is smaller on this one, but the date is bigger on
this when compared to the W96H and the W800. For the weekday, it is bigger on this one.
How do you set this watch?
There are four buttons on this watch and they are some of the best
you will ever use. Sometimes the buttons on the W96H
are stiff. The W213 buttons are not stiff because of the shape.
The small piece of gray plastic on either side
prevents accidental button presses from the wrist. This is a good design.
The strap is good and better than the strap on the W96H watch.
This strap will last longer. The strap does have spring bars.
You can remove the strap and use a leather one instead if you wish.
Setting the time.
Press and hold the top left button, wait for beep, look for blinking seconds. Reset seconds with bottom right button.
Switch to hour with bottom left button. Advance hour with bottom right button.
Press bottom left button so minute blinks, and advance with bottom right button.
Press bottom left button to switch to year setting. Weekday will automatically be set correctly when the correct date is set.
Advance the year with bottom right button.
The W213 can be set from year 2000 to 2099.
If you pass the current year by mistake, you can continue to press and hold the button to go back to 2000 and start again.
You can then find the correct current year.
Press the bottom left button to switch to month.
Select the current month with the bottom right button. Press bottom left button to switch to date.
Select the current date with the bottom right button.
The W213 can only advance numbers, the top right button will not reverse here and activate the lamp.
Press top left button to exit time and date setting.
Notice that the correct weekday is set because the date is correct.
The weekday is set automatically when the correct date is set. Press bottom left button to select alarm.
Press the bottom right button to select alarms 1 through 5. Hourly signal appears after alarm 5.
Setting hourly signal. Press top left button to enable hourly signal. Look for mark on display.
The mark indicates that the hourly signal is enabled. At the beginning of every hour, the watch will beep twice.
This is the sound you will hear at the beginning of the hour when hourly signal is enabled.
You can test the alarm tone on the alarm screen by pressing and holding the bottom right button.
To disable the hourly signal, go to the :00 screen and press the top left button once.
Setting an alarm.
Select the alarm you wish to set.
Press and hold the top left button until hour blinks.
The top left circle shows the alarm being set is now active.
To disable alarm 1, press top left button twice.
For alarms 2 to 5, only one press of top left button is needed to enable or disable.
Alarm 1 has a SNOOZE feature. The indicator on the watch for SNOOZE is SNZ.
SNOOZE is enabled when there is a mark in SNZ. Only alarm 1 has the SNOOZE option.
Alarms 2, 3, 4 and 5 can be set ON or OFF only and do not have a SNOOZE option.
Press and hold the top left button to set the alarm, starting with hour.
Set the alarm hour using the bottom right button.
Press bottom left button to switch to alarm minute, and set using bottom right button.
Press bottom left button to select alarm month.
If a month is set here and day is set to hyphen, the alarm will sound every day for the month selected and only that month.
Press bottom right button to select alarm date. If a month and day are set, this is now an annual alarm.
If the month is set to a hyphen and a day is set, it is a monthly alarm.
If the month and date are set to all hyphens, it is a daily alarm. The watch will sound the alarm at the alarm time you set.
Setting 24-hour time. Go to main timekeeping screen with bottom left button. Press bottom right button to switch from 12-hour to 24-hour time.
The W213 does not have a 24-hour time indicator, but can be checked by going to the alarm screen.
Pressing the bottom right button on the main timekeeping screen again switches back to 12-hour time.
Switching from 12-hour to 24-hour is a silent function. The watch will not beep when switching.
When set to 24-hour time, the alarm can also be set in 24-hour time.
If the watch shows the "wrong" time for the alarm, go to the main timekeeping screen and press the bottom right to switch from 12 to 24 or 24 back to 12.
Example of setting all 5 alarms.
Enabling alarm 1.
Enabling alarm 2, 3, 4 and 5.
The circle at top left shows all 5 alarms are enabled.
Disabling only alarm 3, then disabling the other alarms.
Setting countdown timer. The timer has hour and minute settings, but not seconds.
The maximum time of the countdown timer is 24 hours when set to 0:00.
Stop the countdown timer with bottom right button. Reset timer with top left button.
Setting the timer to 1 minute with auto-repeat.
When setting the timer, the top right button enables or disables auto-repeat. Look for the mark at top right.
When the timer finishes, the watch will beep for 10 seconds.
The top of the display will show an animation while the timer is counting down to zero.
Using the stopwatch. Press bottom right button to start the stopwatch, and again to stop. Press top left button to reset to 0.
While the stopwatch is running, use top left button for SPL (split) time.
An example of using split time for first and second runner finish times.
Dual time. Look for DT at the top left of the display.
Seconds are always synchronized with the main time. Hour and minute can be set to any time you wish.
Press and hold top left to set dual time hour, set with bottom right button.
Press bottom left button to switch to dual time minute. Set with bottom right button.
Press top right to exit once finished.
Using the night light. From main timekeeping, press top right button. Light will illuminate for about 2 seconds.
Showing the test screen. Press and hold top left, bottom left and bottom right buttons all at once.
While test screen is being displayed, press bottom left to see module revision and other screens.
People modify this and the W800 to do everything that this does. My advice is to just get
the W213. It is the same as this except you've got five alarms and a countdown timer with auto-repeat.
Also, I should note that the beep tone on this is louder compared to this one, so
if you think this is not loud enough, this is louder for sure. It is not ear piercing
loud, but it is about the same volume as an F-91W, if you are familiar with that watch.
As far as I know, and this this will be the very last thing I'll say, I've only seen this in two
colors. This color silver and blue. The price I've seen online for the W213 has been between 15 and
20 dollars. Not that expensive. It is a good size. It is very flat on the back. There is... let's see
if I can show this... there is a lip, which is nice. On this one, there is no lip. The screen
will scratch real easy on this one, but not so much on this one because you have a raise of the border
around it. I am trying to show this. Believe me, it is, and you can kind of see it, it is there.
This is why this is a used watch but and as you can see there's there's some junk on the back
of it just from it being generally used but I need
to clean the screen, but it is not scratched at all, which is nice. You will get some good
use out of this and i believe I don't know if this is a 10-year battery model and this one
is as it says right in the bottom, a 10-year battery. I have never had to change the battery
in this and I've had it for a while. I have had this thing for over five years now something like that.
It is a good one. And it even has a signed buckle. Isn't that nice? So there you go. CASIO W213. CAPTIONS BY RICH MENGA WWW.MENGA.NET